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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

Some of our readers desire TO see the
following telegram, which was sent to
PARSONS, the Chicago Anarchist, by his
brother in Virginia:
To Captain Foiz, Cook Comfy Bastiie,
chicago, Ill.,:
Please hand this telegram to my
brother, A. II. Parsons.
Dear Albert, Another Gethsemane
tonight. Legions of angels survey with
plying eye the spectacle of mans inhu-
manity to man. Millions of hearts in
Europe and America thrill with sympa
thy for the men who are dying for hui
mainly. l am proud of your sublime
fortitude and hereditary heroism.
w. II. PARSONS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

We have long been Of the opinion that
a postal telegraph was indispensable in
this country. Nearly four years ago the
Hon. JoHN a. ANDERSON, Of Kansas,
made a speech in the national House of
Representatives in which he attempted
10 maintain, and we mightadd did main
tam successfully, the truth OF the propo-
si.ion that "a postal telegraph was es-
sential TO the freedom Of the American
press and the prosperity OF the American
people" This proposition can be sue
cessiully established now more easily
than it could at the time Mr.. ANDERSON
made his speech
1t is too late in the day to deny the
power of Congress under the Constitu-
ton TO make the telegraph a part
of the postal system Of this country.
II is true the Constitution expressly
authorizes Congress "to establish post
offices and post-roads," and does not
mention postal telegraphs. But as there
were no railroads nor steamboats, at the
time the Constitution was framed, 1t Is
clear that Congress either has the power
TO use the telegraph as part of the
postal service, or else has no power to
use railroad and steamboat lines. Ii
there is one subject which comes under
the eighteenth paragraph of section 81
Article ]. of the Federal Constitu
ton it is this subject Of the telegraph.
In that paragraph Congress ia authorized
20 "make all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper for carrying into execu-
ton any OF the powers "vested 10y the
Constitution in the government Of the
United States, or in any department or
officer thereof" The power "to estab-
lish post offices and post.roads is in
those very words granted to Congress. A
post road was in 1888 what We now call "A
public or " big road. Horses, wagons,
carts, oxen, men, carriages passed over
! those roads. But Congress has decided
that a railroad which belongs to private
persons and Is not public road
at ali, and on which neither
men nor other animals are allowed
10 walk, is a post road within the mean
ing Of the Constitution. Now, the tele-
graph is only one degree further re-
moved from au old.lashioned post-road
than the railroad. The railroad is a
post-road only because letters and other
mailabie matter may be carried over il.
Ii is not such post-road as the trainers
of the Constitution had in mind. A
telegraph is also a road or track along
or over which letters and other mailable
matter may be carried. We may call
these letters messages" or "tele-
grams, but their essential nature is the
same as that Of the ordinary letter.
But if Congress has not the power 4
under the provision Of the Constitution
quoted above to make the telegraph a
part OF The postal system, il has that
power under the provision authorizing
il 10 "regulate commerce. TIE Su-
preme Court of the United States has
never decided this question so far as we
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
A Messcnger nlsappears.

Asst. Paul MINI telegram says: John
H. Webber, young man who has been IN
the employ of the Northern Pacific hX-
press Company for the past year in the
capacity of messenger, disappeared about
a week ago, taking with BIN large
amount of money that had been OK
pressed to western points. The exact
amount Snot known. nor can it be as
certained until the claims Of shippers nre
all in, as the packages which Nehoer
took were not entered upon his books.
1t is understood, however that the
amount will exceed $1,000. Il is sad
that Weber was short in his accounts
several hundred dollars once before and
that the deficiency was made mp by his
relatives. Wcbber is well known m rail-
road circles, and has resided in 81. Paul
for over year. He ran between ST.
Paul and Fargo, and came from Fargo
on Tuesday last After making hls rec
port at the freight department he di7ap-
paared and has not since been seen.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
AUGUSTA COUNTY.
Interesting Notes from StauntOn ana
WayneSbOrO'.

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatch.l
STAUNToy, November -, 1897.
Rev. J. f. Booker, who was called
from the associate passionate of the Pres
byterian church of Charleston, w. Va,
to the charge of Hebron church, Angus
ia county, will be installed next Satur-
day the 18th instant. Rev. Ii. II.
Halves, pastor Of the Second Presbyte-
rian church Of this city, and Rev. l.. b.
Johnston, of Harrisonburg, ofiiciate in the
ceremonies. Hebron il four miles west
of Stanton, Immediately on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, and is one of
the old colonial congregations of the
Presbyterian denomination. Their new
pastor was we'll known TO the congreqa-
hon of Hebron before his call to the
charge, as he was the pastor of the
Second church in this city before his re-
moyal to West Virginia. His father,
Mr.. John Booker, of Richmond, is
spending the winter with his sou.
The ceremonies Of installing the new
pastor, Rev. Sidney +. Riser, took place
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

The Chicago Times thus rebukes its
northern contemporaries who are in
clined to give northern brains and CAPT
tai all the credit for the rapid develop
ment the South has made during the past
few years:
"The rapid and gratifying industrial
development that has been in progress
for some years in the southern portion
of the country has attracted much atten-
ton, and has been attributed, somewhat
too generally, and loosely, perhaps, to
northern enterprise and capital. At all
events. some of the southern papers
seem to think so, for of late they have
often taken occasion TO say very en-
phaticaly that southern brains and
southern capital have done much the
greater pant of the work. And
their statements are supported by the
testimony of northern men. There has
been more than enough time since the
war for the people OF the southern States
f. accumulate the capital required for
the enterprises that have recently been
undertaken. The probability IS, there
fore, that the great bulk of capital that
has lately been put into manufacturing
and kindred enterprises in the southern
States is capital that has been produced
since 1865. This, at all events. is the
supposition which is most creditable to
the southern people.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
DnnYiIIe Nofes.
Especial telegram to the DIspatoh.l

Ispoclal telegram 20 Inc DIspatch.l
DANyILLE. Va, November ia large
number of delegates, lay and clerical, 10
the Virginia Conference arrived tonight
and were assigned to homes in various
parts OF the city.
Samples of tobacco for the fair, which
begins next week, are pouring in. and
now everything promises that il will be
success. Reduced railroad rates have
been obtained on all the roads leading
to Danylle, and big crowd is expected.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

"The Kentucky idea would not 90
down in Ohio. 1t will not be tried on
the rest Of the country" We don't
know so much about that. They do say
that Kentucky continues to distl a
pretty fair article.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

Our neighbor. the Dispatch, gave n
very interesting illustrated article in its
last Sundays edition on "The Progress
Of the Press" having reference mainly
to its own history and the recent i'm
proyements it has added to its establish
mout in the form of one of Hoe a Co. 8
web perfecting presses, capable of print
ing $4,000 copies Of the paperin an hour,
and the necessary accessories, including
a stereotypineapparatus We believe the
DisD0fch is the first paper ever pub
lished in the State on complete 'terco-
type plates Of its own manufacture, and
il certainly has the first web perfecting
press ever used in the State. We con
graduate our neighbor on these evil
dences of prosperity, which it well de-
serves wing.
Thanks, neighbour
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

A Petersburg special says "MAHoNE
and other prominent Republicans have
been figuring on the Virginia election
returns Their figures probably resulted
as did the experiment of the boy who
tried to get cat out Of well by making
her jump up one foot and fall back two
feet at each spring.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

OF the consulting surgeons on General
Grant case, said that the Crown Prince $
disease started in a different way to that
of General Grant. "With the latter 1t
was epthelioma from the beginning. In
the case of the Crown Prince, Judging
from the reports coming from the medl-
cal men who have been in attendance, 1t
seems first to have been papiloma, and
then changed TO epitheIioma. DIR.
Shrady thinks that there is no immediate
danger, and that the end may not come
for some months still he admits the
impossibility of telling just how long
death may be warded off.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

The Philadelphia Ncps gets off the
following; First little girl My father
is an editor, what does yours do? Sec
ond little girl: Whatever mamma tells
him." The second little girls father
must have been an editor also.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

The Boston Heraid says; "Mr.
HoAR's gushing eulogy and endorsement
Of MALONE are probably something that
he counts as part of his warmth Of heart
toword the southern people" How
could the Hcraid be 80 cruel /?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
We saw TO orr good friend in Peters

We say to our good friend in Peters
burg who writes to us on the subject
that we have not attempted to estimate
the relative popular strength of the two
parties as manifested in the late cleo
tons in Virginia. Next Monday week
the Board of State Canvassers will fur
nish us the official figures, and VIC hope
to find Democratic majority.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
Colonel Fellows in baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Nh, November iL-Col-
oneI John Il. Fellows the neWly-clected
District Attorney of New York, !, IN the
city tonight. bound for a season Of
duck-shootiug on the Su-quehlrna. itc
was presented to both branches of the
CITY Council and made d brief address.
Tonight be was rendered compll-
mentary dinuer at the Maryland Club.
Colonel Fellows says he intends resting
for week or ten days.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

The Richmond Dispatch commenced
yesterday to use its new press, which has
a capacity Of printing thirty thousand
complete papers an hour. 1t cost So, 500.
During these short days the PuJtic
Lcdgcr would like to have the use of
that press about ten minutes each day
N0rJoN Ledgcr.
Cnrnn On
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
BRIEF COMMENT.

The Buffalo Express says: "The only
course for the Republican party hence
forth is TO look neither to the right nor
to the left" When did the Republican
party look to the right?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
oANre.s INFERNO, prRGA-

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
OPERA-HOUSE.

Commencing MONDAY, November 18th, and
every afternoon aud evening during the week,
the celebrated ARNE WALLER DRAMATIC
COMPANY In two great dramas. Monday.
Tuesday, and "Wednesday Afternoons and Nights
THE TWO ORPHANS Thursday, Friday. and
Saturday Afternoons and Nights, DESPERATE
STRAITS. Mas Arne Walker a. Louise, tho
blind girl. Is without an equai, and Mrs. Walker
as Mother Frochard Is the best Ia the profess
sion.
Doors open; Afternoon, 1880. performance
commencing az 2:2). night :, performance COM
mencing at o'clock. Prices OF admission:
Matiuees, 10 aud eoc. night, 10 aud soc. Post
lively no reserved seats sold after tho doors
open. Reserved seats can be procured Daring
the day. no lS-lW
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

Do not waste your money for every
new remedy advertised to cure a cough
when you know that DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup has stood the popular test Tor
thirty years. Price rs cents.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
ZITKA.
DICHMOND MOZART ASSOCIA-
IL TON.

The regular weekly solree will take place at
the Mozart Academy of Musc THIS We'd
nesdayl EVENING at 81 o'clock. Admission
only by membership or invitation cards, which
must be presented at the door. Members can
obtain invitation cards on application 20 c. l..
SIEdEL, 42l Broad street; MANLY B. RAMOS &
Co, sOa Main street; or WALTER d. MOSES s CO.,
9ll Main street az 3-Suts
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

fExrar nam tt' ne.ree ~ October i,. i-.''
Ou r8n-iicmu htr...f 10
Court I.th a1'lige. order. and ir.r'. ttl. MS
cau.. t- referred t0 One ui tlr COMM '- U'-f
,f This court Ii. ttse the following .u-'s h4l
t0muae tnr following uluiuc- fO Nt.
i-t Au account NJ All The rra' tIi fI-Nll
estate Df whi % Ellen VI. Mc,arhy died -e.t 4
ana possessed.
"a Aua..lIut ~ an the debts ans irnH. g
acaIu-t rle estate ~ said Ellen VI. Nr' ...,
deceased. together with their puouur-.
81 An ar.Ulut of ths uau-H. ions or l'
Mccarthy a- o.imiul-tAt0r ~ th' estate -
Ellen ~ Mccarthy. deceased.
4lh. What wi be A reasonable lli prop
o. le allowed to s.. -. Cosby. d.. t.r '.,'
m fl.. case ANA Tor services t.fr
rendered The -aii estate 0f Elton 81 b.
Carfly. together With any other matter i.''
.. pertinent hy the commissioner Dr iHh h.f
party foo interest may require g. Dr. ial.y ir-
ported.
But said commissioner shall noe DO. eel ~
execute This dceicc Uuul De shall lttn gwen go
tirn oi the time ami place f1r so doing hi plDi-
cation uf tnc Same once week Tor f..f -t..-
slte week ORE some newspaper p4hlisl"l 'N 100
city ol M.Lm0ud. whHh publication ,AtA a
deemed elI.yllel, o. personal sr.'l-e.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
HAR.IFA
Election Echoes De atb Fan EstIma a.
bile Lady-PersOnaI
UIV H1NNN NT"VNWIf
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspatchl

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspatch,l
SOUTH BOsTON, Nov. -, 1887.
The political canvass just terminated
has 10y It's splendid results put the Dem
ocratIc party Of old halifax in fine form
and spirits, although in neither Of these
desirable qualities was the old county
very deficient, if We may judge by the
large majority given Watkins and Bald
win. These gentlemen were elected by
about 1000 majority. They will max
excellent representatives., and, including
orr senator (tlon. Paul G. Edmunds),
the Halifax delegation will be second to
none in ability, influence, and hard
working powers.
DEATH OF MRS. THONAs Z. BABKsDALE.
Mrs. Sarah c. Barksdale died last Sa-
turday at the residence Of her husband,
Thomas +. Barksdale, Esq, at Whit
lock She had been in feeble health for
some time, but was thought to be great
" improved and her death was very un-
expected and a shock to her many rela-
tiyes and friends. Mrs Barksdale was
sister Of the late John Il. Edmunds
and Colonel Littleton Edmunds, of this
county. and Of Mr.. Joseph Edmunds,
OF Charlotte. She presented at all times
a most exalted type of Christian charac-
ter and her death IS a severe loss to the
community and circles in which she
moves. At her funeral Sunday evening
an enormous crowd Of white and colOrod
people was present and displayed the
universal esteem i'll which she was held.
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
The November term of our Circuit
Court is now in session at Halifax Court
house and large amount of business
will he transacted before it closes. Judge
White is worker.
Sheriff Walter l.. Moon, who has been
extremely i'll, is now greatly improved,
and, it is hoped, will soon be entirely
well again.
The Lynchburg and Durham railroad
directors have rejected the route from
Halifax Courthouse to South Boston that
gave so much dissatisfaction and adopted
the popular Poplar Creek route, and
everybody is happy. BY the way, I'M
derstand that work on this road is being
pushed very fast and it is thought that a
force OF hands will soon be put to work
at South Boston. Our people earnestly
hope so.
Cupid has evidently been doing some
very effective work in Halifax. Several
marriages have already taken place and
many more are reported as in the near
future.
Will the Dispatch please inform us if
Halifax is not the banner county of Vir-
ginia Democracy? And if that be true,
can We not Justly claim to be the banner
ties of the National Democracy
Phil.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16
A GREAT CHANGE.

THE PUBLISHERS GRAND BOOK SALE
HAVE RECEIVED SUCH AN ENORMOUS ~
VOICE or BOOKS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
COMPELLED TO GET LARGER QUARTERS.
MR.. LIT. THE MANAGER, HAS SUCCEEDED
N SECURING THE LaRGEsToREGooN FOR
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,roCKoFBooKs rIATWILLBE DISPLAYED
WILL BE SOMETHING ENORMOUS NEVER
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ANYTHING LIKE IT. TIE LOT THAT he
HAS HAD ON SALE BEFORE Is But A
HANDFUL IN COMPARISON. THE NEW
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TIE PROPER DISPLAY OF SOME FINE
ART BOOKS THAT ARE AMONG THE NEW
NyoWE:ALsO, ~oNEBcACrtULLY BOUND
SETS.
EVERY BOOK We SELL Is FROM ONE
HALE 10 oNE THIRD LESS THAN BEGU-
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ADVERTISING RATES.
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Reading notices r. reaaiuc-mat'or type, .
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card Of rates for moro space furnished on ap-
plicaton.
Al letters aud kilograms must DC addressed
O. TBE DISPATCH COMPANY.
Rejected communications WI rot DO re-
turned.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

OFFICE or pRrErsEUcG RAILROAD Co.J
EICNaOED. VA, NoF.uh.r 3, l,s.
NOTICE. TEE ANNUAL MEET
y ING or TIE STOCAHOlDfH, ~ Rails
company viii Doe held OF 81. DNcc of fl' come
pany m Petersburg on MONDAY ue liet joe
slant at /. O'Clock III.
NJ ". lARBlNDrON,
no It'd secretary.
A NNUAL MEETING.-THE AN.
"A NUAL meeting of the stockholders IS fine
RICHMOND. FREDERICKSBURG, AND PpIO-
MAC RAILROAD COMPANY VIII Poe Ael or
WEDNESDAY. November l1. l.s-. at j. o'clc -il
NJ, at Byri-S.reet station, lu tnt city ot iii-l-
mond. i. 3. WINSTON.
no Ltd Secretary.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16

IIMUT r-T"NfN = I|IT|ElT
No. 1916 EAsr MATS sfREft.
RICHMOND. "a. J
Tho parties Interested Boz the above -lt ara
hereby notified that / have nArd un tMDAl,
December q. l-n1, at l0 o'clock a. VI. am Nf
os4rs sfoy, b. the time ana place f1r.N..urHy
the decree from which the foregoing is Al .A-
tract
Gwen under my hand this S,h lay n Noyom.
Der. lss1. H. H. ~ t"-h'
Commissioner in thanrrfY
". ". COSBY, JR, Pc nos-"t"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-08-04
OPINIONS ON THE PLATFORM.

The platform is an excellent one. II
1s sound In Its positions on the tariff,
the surplus, the restriction Of corporate
power, the retention of public lands for
settlers, home rule and other questions
IN. Y. World.
The nomination Of Hon. Thomas e.
Powell for Governor, by the Ohio DemOc
racy, and the adoption Of tariff reform
platform, was clean cnt sdministrs
tion triumph. 1t Is greatly In Mr.. Pow
ellis favor, too, that he has the "backing"
of the "0ld Roman" Hon. Allen G
Thurman. He ought to walk FOrRk RS
log Illinois State Register.
The Democrats of Ohio have acted with
courage and wisdom. The platform is
Democratic to the core, and free from
injurious compromises and misleading
antiquities. Its declarations leave no
room for doubt about what the Democ
racy of the State believes, wants aod
intends to accomplish. The lndOrse-
ment of President Cleveland and his
Administration Is enthusiastic, and on
the great question of revenue reform
the line between D D3mocratiC and RepUb-
lican doctrines is so clearly drawn that
no one can mistake the issue-- IN. Y.
Star.
II Is worth while to call attention to
the fact that many of the papers printed
inaccurately the liquor traffic plank of
the platform of the Ohio Democrats
Correctly printed 1t reads as follows:
"We declare In favor Of a proper reg
ulation of the liquor traffic. and believe
IL to be the duty of all good citizens to
aid In reducing to minimum the evils
resulting therefrOm, and to this end
favor the submission of al amendment
to the Constitution providing for the
license of such traffic."
In the papers alluded to, the word
"prohibition" appeared yesterday in
stead Of the words proper regulation"
Il Richmond Dispatch.
The platform Of the Ohio Democracy,
adopted in convention at Cleveland yes.
terday, on the occasion Of State ticket
nomination, is explicit and satisfactory
on the leading points of Democratic doc.
trine. OF chief interest, Of course, is
/ the utteranee of the Buckeye Democrats
on the subject that is to form the main
issue In elections this year and next
The subject Of protective tariff. 1--WE
demand" says the platform, "such judi
cious reduction of the present burden
some tariff as shall result In producing
a revenue sufficient only to meet the
expense of an economical sdministTa-
tiOn of government. the payment of lib
ersl pensions to Union soldiers and
sailors, and the payment Of the interest
and principal of the public debt, and If
necessary, we favor such reduction Of
internal revenue, except on liquors, as
will prevent the accumulation of sur
plus In the national treasury. and we
denounee any attempt to abolish the tax
on liquors for the purpose of keeping no
the present unjust, unequal and Oner-
GUS tariff system."- Orleans
| States,